They make good rodent toys.

Organise your power leads: Slackly fold each cable back and forth a few times and push all the loops through a cardboard tube.

Depending on the thickness of your cable, you can get a few in each tube.

This is what I have done with mine and they fit really nicely into a lychee box that I got from the market and they stack really well as well.

I cut toilet roll tubes in half (and kitchen roll tubes into quarters) and use them as plant pots for seedlings. They’re as good as peat pots - and better for the envrionment and cheaper too.

what do you use for the bottom to stop stuff falling out? is ther some nifty technque?

i use a bit of scrunched up newspaper, greengal81. it’s not foolproof and you have to be careful when carrying it from greenhouse to bed but it just pretty much dissolves when wet enough so the roots don’t have any problem growing through.

I pack mine into used vegetable containers (the ones that mushrooms come in), and then you don’t need to fill in the bottoms. My sweetpeas like them…

Any tubes i don’t use go on the compost heap.

here check this link out
http://suzannemcminn.com/blog/2008/02/20/how-to-make-biodegradable-seed-starter-pots/
it got step by step pictures on how to do a bottom.

I’ve make a very low tech desk tidy with mine. I’ve studk three together like in your picture and stuck them to a circle of card.

Very Blue Peter I know.

So have I!!!! P.S. I love blue peter, especially the making bit. The people who make that must have very artistic minds…

what or who is blue peter?

With the longer kitchen roll tubes, you can store a bunch of carrier bags inside each tube. Leave a tube of bags near every bin in your house!

ooh I like the idea of that, especially leaving one near every bin… I always need to reline bins and hate traipsing back and forth!

cover both ends with newspaper and rubber bands after half filling with pistaciao nut shells to make that percussion instrument mentioned on the other thing

You could donate them to a primary school in your area. They are perfect for kid’s art projects.

You can use toilet rolls at schools but they must be sterilized - 3mins in microwave on full power and don’t burn yourself removing them!

Why not to fill it with clay to get a brick for dividing walls, or some built in furniture?

I used about 10 of these to make a rolled-up poster holder - I glued them in a honeycomb pattern.

Give them to someone who has a pet hamster. They can put it in the cage as a sort of toy (a tunnel that the hamster will go through).

Might sound dumb, but I always thought it was a cool and creative way to make a unique envelope. Without breaking it, you can flatten it and address it, then staple or (thoroughly!) tape the ends shut. As long as the postage and address are correct, it will go through the postal service as intended.

I’ve used them as molds for making giant crayons. I separated old crayons into basic primary colors, melted them down and poured the wax into the tubes with waxed paper on the ends, held with elastic. There was a little leakage, but not much. This uses up old crayons well, too.

toilet rolls are very germy think about how a roll is changed does the user get up wash hands then change roll then sit again? I hope pre schools and primary schools are no longer using them, especially for music. they just need to go in the mulch or the recycle bin.

Use them to make homemade chrismas crackers.
cut into thin bits and decorated as serviette rings.

Use them as the body for home made dolls the kids love to make them.
Pipecleaner arms and legs wool for hair all great fun!

wow look at all the stuff u can do with a spair toilet roll!

Can be made into Christmas crackers with a bit of tissue or crepe paper wrapped round them. You could even splash out and buy snaps from the craft shop!

i stuffed them with pinecones - they made great kindling… such a nice woodsy smell and so effective

i am making an igloo sculpture out of them so am collecting them.

Sue, toilet rolls can be steralised with a quick blast in a microwave oven. The school I worked at almost 10 years ago was doing that to them then, so I assume that most schools will know of this now and be doing it at standard practice.

I actully have over 150 toilet roll tubes so I am looking for a bigger project.

If you are wondering how I came to collect all these it was a rank that went horribly wrong. I just cant now seem to throw them away.

Well how about making a lamp from it
http://www.instructables.com/id/Toilet-paper-roll—lamp/

I think that are useful enough to do “cartapesta” (i dont know what is in english)the technique to make venetian masks, bowls, dolls even little fourniture ,room divider screen (over styrofoam), you immerse them into water for a day, the paper will separate into 2 sheets,you rip the paper using your fingers very important and then you can glue it over the piece you want,overlapping paper on paper sparsely to copy the shape and after many layers of paper it will take hardness, al least 15.let it dry and decorate…it took time and patiente but it gives vast possibilities

You take them and fill them with the dryer lint (also recyclable) and they make great fire starters. Also, no one mentioned cutting them long ways and making Christmas cones. You twist them to the cone shape and staple them, then cover with Christmas paper and lace and glue a ribbon in the top and hang them on the tree. Some people go so far as to fill them with wrapped candy -yummy!

You use them instead of earthing up leeks on your veg plot. I posted a picture and article on my blog last month:

http://vegplotting.blogspot.com/2007/11/winter-veg-care.html

OR you can use them instead of rootrainers for seeds auch as peas and beans

This is a great and simple project:
http://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/tp_tube_gift_box

also this one from the same site (diff person though)

http://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/small_animal_kong

They are absolutely perfect if you have a wormery which is getting too wet. Rip them into pieces and add them - the worms convert them to lovely compost!

My dad has reused one as a pen holder in his car. He taped one end up and has put it in the door compartment in his car to stop all his pens sliding about. ( you could obviously paint it first so it looked less loo roll like if needed!)